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SUPERANNUATE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Retire or become ineligible because of old age or infirmity

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "superannuate" is one way to...):

retire (go into retirement; stop performing one's work or withdraw from one's position)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 2

Meaning:

Become obsolete

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "superannuate" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

superannuation (the property of being out of date and not current)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Declare to be obsolete

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "superannuate" is one way to...):

adjudge; declare; hold (declare to be)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

superannuation (the property of being out of date and not current)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Retire and pension (someone) because of age or physical inability

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "superannuate" is one way to...):

retire (make (someone) retire)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

superannuation (the act of discharging someone because of age (especially to cause someone to retire from service on a pension))

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